Klaus Schwab column: World Economic Forum still needs U.S.

7:46 PM,
Jan. 23, 2013

People gather Tuesday at the 'Davos lounge' inside the Congress Center and follow the latest tweets of participants on the eve of the opening of the 43rd annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Klaus Schwab

This week, 2,500 of the world's top government, business, civil society and intellectual leaders are meeting in a remote Swiss city high in the Alps. Among them will be more than 800 of the United States' most senior leaders.

Forty-three years ago, I convened the first meeting in Davos with 400 participants. The objective of the meeting was to bring ideas and insights from the industrial and innovation powerhouse of America to a postwar Europe working to modernize its business and social systems. Although the meeting itself has changed in many ways since that time, one thing remains the same - ...